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Home » Recipe » Easy Halloween Graveyard Cake

Easy Halloween Graveyard Cake

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Published on October 26, 2020 by Elizabeth Atia 7 Comments
Last Updated on October 28, 2020

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This super easy Halloween graveyard cake features an effortless egg-free chocolate sponge topped with chocolate frosting and plenty of sweets to resemble a spooky graveyard. In collaboration with the Oakwood Theme Park.

 

Image of a chocolate Halloween graveyard cake with three spooky graves surrounded by a chocolate matchmakers crooked fence.

Table of Contents

  • Easy Halloween Cake Baking
  • Ingredients you’ll need to make this egg-free chocolate cake recipe
  • Simple six-step instructions
  • Egg-free baking
  • How do I make a cake egg-free?
  • How do you make a flax gel egg replacer?
  • Easy Egg-free Halloween Graveyard Cake Recipe

Easy Halloween Cake Baking

I absolutely love Halloween. To be honest, it’s my favourite holiday of the year. The whole dressing up thing, the excuse to eat all. of. the. sweeties., the ghoulish fun. I really do love it.

Each year I try to share a Halloween bake, or two, and so this is my contribution to the wonderful world of Halloween baking for 2020 – an easy Halloween graveyard cake.

For this cake, I’ve used some of the UK’s all-time favourite Halloween sweets to create a cake with three spooky graves complete with gravestones and a rickety crooked graveyard fence.

It’s an easy enough recipe to make and assemble too, so it’s perfect to get the kids tucked in with the baking and decorating, given no one’s allowed to go trick or treating (or visiting theme parks) this year. 

Top down image of all the ingredients needed to make an egg free chocolate Halloween graveyard cake.

Ingredients you’ll need to make this egg-free chocolate cake recipe

For the egg-free chocolate sponge cake

  •  200 grams self-raising flour
  • 20 grams cornflour
  • 225 grams caster sugar
  • 30 grams cocoa powder
  • 1/2 tsp bicarbonate of soda
  • pinch of salt
  • 225 ml full-fat milk (or non-dairy substitute)
  • 75 ml vegetable oil
  • 1 tbsp white vinegar
  • 1 tsp vanilla bean paste

Halloween graveyard decorating ideas

  • ready-made chocolate frosting, for the ground
  • Quality Street matchmakers, for the crooked graveyard fence
  • Oreo cookies, for the grave dirt
  • orange smarties, to outline the graves
  • shortbread biscuits, for the gravestones
  • dark chocolate, for the gravestones
  • vanilla frosting, for the gravestone words
  • Maltesers, to hold up the gravestones 
  • sugar skulls, bones, eyes and pumpkins, to decorate

Six step collage how to make and an egg free Halloween cake.

Simple six-step instructions

  1. Mix the dry ingredients together in a mixing bowl.
  2. Combine the wet ingredients in a measuring a jug.
  3. Stir the wet ingredients into the dry, and mix well.
  4. Pour into a 9-inch square baking tin lined with baking paper.
  5. Bake in a preheated 180 C/ 170 C fan/ 350 F/ Gas 4 oven for 30 minutes.
  6. Cool and decorate as desired.

Image of a Halloween Graveyard Cake.

Egg-free baking

Over the last 9 years of blogging, I’ve had numerous requests from my readers to share some egg-free baking recipes. This Halloween graveyard cake recipe is, officially, the first deliberate egg-free bake shared on the blog. 

When it comes to egg substitutes, there’s a wide variety of options. My tried and tested egg replacer used to be flax gel, see recipe below, but it’s a bit of a faff to make, requiring a degree of organisation I usually don’t possess.

I have, however, recently learned about using a vinegar/baking soda combination as an egg replacer. This is going to take my egg-free baking to the next level, I believe. Watch this space!

Image of a Halloween graveyard cake.

How do I make a cake egg-free?

The easiest way to make a cake egg-free is to replace one egg with 1 tablespoonful of an acid such as vinegar or lemon juice with 1 teaspoonful of bicarbonate of soda.

The acid/soda combination creates air bubbles in the cake, giving it lift and a light, airy texture.

How do you make a flax gel egg replacer?

  • Simmer 2 cups/475 ml of water with two tablespoonfuls of whole flax seeds for 10-20 minutes.
  • Strain the mixture and discard the seeds.
  • Use 1/2 cup/ 118 ml of the flax gel to replace one egg in recipes calling for no more than two eggs. 

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Close up photo of Quality Street Matchmakers spooky crooked graveyard fence on cake.
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Image of a chocolate Halloween graveyard cake with three spooky graves surrounded by a chocolate matchmakers crooked fence.

With thanks: a huge shout out to egg-free Callum and his sister Caitlyn for the inspiration for this cake. 

Image of a Halloween Graveyard Cake.

Easy Egg-free Halloween Graveyard Cake Recipe

A simple, not-too-sweet egg-free chocolate sponge cake just the right size to be loaded with all the frosting and sweets needed to create a spooky Halloween graveyard. Eat at your peril!
5 from 8 votes
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Course: Dessert
Cuisine: American
Prep Time: 5 minutes
Cook Time: 30 minutes
Decorating Time: 30 minutes
Servings: 16 servings
Calories: 159kcal
Author: Elizabeth
Cost: £0.60

Ingredients

for the egg-free chocolate cake

  • 200 grams self-raising flour
  • 20 grams cornflour
  • 225 grams caster sugar
  • 30 grams cocoa powder
  • 1/2 tsp bicarbonate of soda
  • 1 pinch sea salt
  • 225 ml full fat milk
  • 75 ml vegetable oil
  • 1 tbsp distilled white vinegar
  • 1 tsp vanilla bean paste

for the Halloween graveyard decorations

  • chocolate fudge frosting
  • Quality Street Matchmakers salted caramel flavour
  • Smarties orange
  • Oreo cookies
  • dark chocolate
  • Shortbread biscuits
  • Maltesers
  • vanilla frosting
  • Halloween sugar decorations
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Equipment

9-inch square tin
mixing bowl
wooden spoon
cooling rack

Instructions 

  • Preheat oven to 180 C/ 170 C fan/ 350 F/ Gas Mark 4. Grease and line a 9-inch square baking tin with non-stick baking paper.
  • Sieve the flour, cornflour, baking soda, salt and cocoa powder into a large mixing bowl.
    Image of first step in cake baking - sieve dry ingredients.
  • Stir in the caster sugar with a wooden spoon.
    Image of step 2 - stirring in the caster sugar with a wooden spoon.
  • In a measuring jug, combine the milk, vinegar, vegetable oil and vanilla.
    Image of step three - combining the wet ingredients in a glass measuring jug.
  • Pour the wet ingredients into the dry.
    Image of step four of making the cake - pour the wet ingredients into the dry.
  • Mix well.
    Image of step five - mixing the cake batter in a bowl.
  • Spoon into the prepared 9-inch baking tin.
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  • Bake in a preheated oven for 30 minutes and then cool completely on a wire rack.
    Image of step 7 - baked cake cooling on a wire rack.
  • Decorate as desired!
    Top down image of finished Halloween graveyard cake.

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Nutrition

Calories: 159kcal | Carbohydrates: 26g | Protein: 2g | Fat: 6g | Saturated Fat: 4g | Cholesterol: 1mg | Sodium: 44mg | Potassium: 60mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 15g | Vitamin A: 23IU | Calcium: 20mg | Iron: 1mg

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This is a sponsored recipe post in collaboration with the Oakwood Theme Park, although all thoughts and opinions expressed are our own. Thank you for supporting the brands who make it possible for me to do what I love: mess up my kitchen and share Halloween graveyard cake recipes.

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Comments

  1. Toni Dash says

    October 30, 2020 at 2:15 pm

    5 stars
    This is so impressive!! Perfect cake for our Halloween party!

    Reply
  2. Beth says

    October 30, 2020 at 1:39 pm

    5 stars
    This is so adorable and looks like fun! I can’t wait to make this! My kids are going to love this!

    Reply
  3. Jeannette says

    October 30, 2020 at 12:52 pm

    5 stars
    Wow! What a fantastic Halloween treat! I love how these look so much like graveyards – they’re great for a spooky theme. Thanks for sharing!

    Reply
  4. Krissy Allori says

    October 30, 2020 at 12:41 pm

    5 stars
    Made this recipe and it got the kids super excited for halloween!

    Reply
  5. Kechi says

    October 30, 2020 at 11:41 am

    5 stars
    This looks fun and creative! I love that this recipe is egg-free, and you added “RIP COVID.”

    Reply
    • Elizabeth Atia says

      November 10, 2020 at 12:48 pm

      That was straight out of the imagination of a 9-year old. I had to recreate it! 🙂

      Reply
  6. Nic | Nic's Adventures & Bakes says

    October 30, 2020 at 10:06 am

    5 stars
    Thanks for sharing, this cake looks lovely and easy to make and assemble perfect for a party 🙂

    Reply

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